Historical+Timeline


 * //Timeline of Human Prehistory;//**
 * Africa, Over Six Million Years Ago (MYA): First Provable Evidence of hominoids in Africa.
 * Africa, Circa (ca) 6 MYA: First Hominoids (//Orrorin tugenesis//) appear in East Africa.
 * World, From ca 2.5 MYA to 10,000 Years Ago (YA): Old Stone Age (//Paleolithic//).
 * World, ca 2.3 MYA to 1.5 MYA: //Homo Habilis// uses stone tools. First signs of culture and animal sacrifice.
 * Africa, ca 1.8 MYA: Primitive people (//Homo Erectus//) migrate from Africa, hominoids migrate north and east from Africa.
 * World, ca 1.8 MYA to 1 MYA: Development of language for communication.
 * Asia, ca 1.7 MYA to 300,000 YA: The "Java Man".
 * World, ca 500,000 YA: The first use of fire.
 * Asia, ca 600,000 to 200,000 YA: The "Peking Man".
 * Europe, ca 150,000 to 30,000 YA: Neanderthals (//Homo Neanderthalensis//).
 * Europe, ca 40,000 YA: //Cro-Magnon// people in Europe (//Homo Sapiens Sapiens//).
 * World, From ca 10,000 BC New Stone Age (//Neolithic//); Transition to farming and cattle herding.
 * Middle East, From ca 9,000 BC: Large settlement of Jericho in Palestine.
 * Middle East, From ca 7,000 BC: Large settlement of Catalhoyuk in Turkish Anatolia.
 * Middle East, From ca 5,000 BC: Metal production and processing in the Middle East, along with copper.
 * Middle East, 5th to 4th millennium BC: Tell cultures in Mesopotamia.
 * Asia, From ca 4,500 BC: Long Shang culture in China.
 * World, From 3rd millennium BC: Production and Processing of bronze.
 * Africa & Asia, From 3,000 BC: First high cultures in Mesopotamia (Sumerians), Egypt and Pakistan.
 * //Timeline of Early History;//**
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